{"id":519819,"date":"2026-04-08T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:11:13","slug":"from-euphoria-to-rivals-the-best-tv-shows-to-watch-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519819\/","title":{"rendered":"From Euphoria to Rivals: The best TV shows to watch this Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

At long last, the miserable winter is over and spring is upon us. As the glorious sunshine returns to our shores once more, you could be forgiven for thinking now is the time to switch off the television and head outdoors to soak in some Vitamin D<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But wait! That would also mean missing some excellent television. And there\u2019s plenty of it coming down the line over the next few months, from the dystopian Handmaid\u2019s Tale sequel The Testaments<\/a>, to Richard Gadd (yes, the Baby Reindeer one<\/a>)\u2019s new TV show. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s our roundup of the best. <\/p>\n

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Chase Infiniti stars as Agnes in The Testaments<\/p>\n

Disney\/PA<\/p>\n

The Handmaid\u2019s Tale \u2013 Margaret Atwood\u2019s dystopian vision of future America \u2013 finally ended its run on our screens <\/a>last year. But because nature abhors a vacuum, we now have a follow-up in the form of The Testaments<\/a>. Though we finished the last series with June (Elisabeth Moss) bringing down Gilead\u2019s rule in Boston, we start this new series back in the theocratic heartlands. Chase Infiniti plays a blinder as Agnes, a young member of the elite who is being groomed to marry and procreate \u2013 until, at least, her life is thrown into chaos by the arrival of Daisy (Lucy Halliday).<\/p>\n

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BBC<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Jonathan Partridge, but for football! The latest show from the W1A and Twenty Twelve team sees Hugh Bonneville makes his return as the champion of failing upwards, Ian Fletcher. Formerly the BBC<\/a>\u2019s head of values, he\u2019s now been appointed the Director of Integrity (Miami based) at the upcoming 2026 World Cup, a massive spectacle spanning three countries, 48 contenders and 16 venues.<\/p>\n

As Bonneville puts it, \u201cIan has evolved. Although, \u2018evolution\u2019 is, of course, an interesting word, conjuring images of change – development from flaccid amoeba, for example, to homo erectus and indeed sapiens. Ian sees himself as crouching somewhere in between.\u201d Which should give you some idea as to how things go.<\/p>\n

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Jasper Savage\/Prime Video<\/p>\n

Eric Kripke\u2019s sadistic, satirical vision of America finally comes to a gruesome end. But not, we hope, before some more gratuitous gore and violence. In this last season, Homelander has ascended. He\u2019s basically in charge of the US, and he\u2019s ready to finally execute several members of the Boys in one of his \u2018freedom\u2019 camps. Meanwhile, Butcher (Karl Urban) is running around with superpowers, and a supe-killing virus, and a chip on his shoulder. Cue the chaos.<\/p>\n

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Maude Apatow as Lexi in Euphoria<\/p>\n

Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved<\/p>\n

After years (and years) of waiting, HBO<\/a> is finally giving the fans what they want \u2013 which is one final season of the immaculately curated aesthetic that is Euphoria. All our favourites are back \u2013 Cassie, Nate, Rue, Jules and Maddy<\/a> \u2013 but this time, they\u2019ve left school and have struck out into adult life with varying levels of success. Rue appears to be smuggling drugs across the border from Mexico, Cassie is working as an OnlyFans model and Maddy appears to be a hotshot Hollywood agent. But things never stay calm for long in the world of Euphoria, and this season looks to be the darkest yet: think guns, police and maybe some angry cartel members.<\/p>\n

Malcolm In the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair<\/p>\n

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Disney<\/p>\n

Hello, the Noughties are calling. That\u2019s right, it\u2019s time for every member of Gen Alpha to look confused, and every Millennial to go misty-eyed, because Disney have seen fit to revive one of their original mega-shows for a four-episode special. Incredibly, most of the cast are returning, too: Frankie Muniz is back as Malcolm, the perennially overlooked middle child of his chaotic family. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s an adult now, and has successfully managed to distance himself from them, but when parents Lois and Hal (Jane Kaczmarek and Bryan Cranston, excellent as ever) demand his attendance at their 40th wedding anniversary, things (naturally) spiral.<\/p>\n

Margo’s Got Money Troubles<\/p>\n

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Apple TV<\/p>\n

Apple TV really has got an excellent slate of shows coming out in the next few months (looking at you, Ted Lasso) \u2013 the latest of which is this adaptation of the winning 2024 novel. Elle Fanning is Margo, who finds herself pregnant after a rather torrid affair with her community college English teacher. Desperate to make ends meet, and with two very dysfunctional parents (Michelle Pfeiffer and Nick Offerman) to contend with, Margo winds up turning OnlyFans cam work to make ends meet. The result is both witty and wise, and (naturally) stuffed with great character work.<\/p>\n

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Channel 4<\/p>\n

Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West make everything better, and so it proves with Big Mood, their returning Channel 4 dramedy. In it, the pair reprise their roles as the chaotic Maggie and Eddie. Following the fallout of season one<\/a>, the formerly inseparable friends haven\u2019t seen each other for a year (since Maggie contracted lithium poisoning, in fact), but after being reunited as bridesmaids at a wedding, Maggie is desperate to win back her friend, while Eddie has moved on by attaching herself to a spiritual influencer from California. <\/p>\n

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Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan in Beef season 2<\/p>\n

Netfli<\/p>\n

Beef\u2019s first season <\/a>took over the internet when it aired in 2023. Naturally, that means a sequel \u2013 which swaps out Steven Yeun and Ali Wong and their road rage feud for an elite country club. Whilst there, a young couple (Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton) witness a fight between their boss and his wife Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan). They\u2019re low-level staff members, he\u2019s the General Manager \u2013 but soon they\u2019re all embroiled in a web of blackmail that stretches all the way to the club\u2019s billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh-jung). Juicy.<\/p>\n

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BBC\/Mam Tor Productions\/Anne Binckebanck<\/p>\n

Remember Baby Reindeer? It\u2019s kind of impossible to forget: Richard Gadd\u2019s semi-autobiographical TV show <\/a>in which he retold (with dramatic licence, though how much remains unclear) the story of how he was stalked by a woman named \u2018Martha\u2019. Cue armchair detectives and a press frenzy that eventually resulted in the real \u2018Martha\u2019 being discovered \u2013 a nightmare for both Gadd and Netflix, which is presumably why he\u2019s pivoted to fiction in this new offering for BBC One. <\/p>\n

In this show, Gadd and Jamie Bell play Ruben and Niall, two men who were inseparable as young men. But three decades later, when Ruben turns up at Niall\u2019s wedding, things seem off. One violent incident later, and we\u2019re exploring their past, as well as what exactly happened to make them both so broken.<\/p>\n

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David Tennant in Rivals<\/p>\n

Disney+\/PA<\/p>\n

Jilly Cooper\u2019s calling and she wants her riding crop back. Yes, the bonk-tastic TV adaptation of her Rivals series has returned, and with it, more machinations, more big egos and certainly more sex. The season one finale<\/a> left off with Sir Tony Baddingham having been clobbered with his own award and left to bleed out by Cameron Cook (Nafessa Williams). <\/p>\n

Spoiler alert: he\u2019s survived and he\u2019s out for revenge against anybody associated with the new Venturer TV station. That would primarily be Alex Hassell\u2019s Rupert Campbell-Black, but there\u2019s space too for Aidan Turner\u2019s news anchor Declan O\u2019Hara. And in case that isn\u2019t enough to sell you, this season is also set to introduce polo. Strap in. Or on.<\/p>\n

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Spider Noir<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Prime<\/p>\n

Look, Spider-Noir damn near stole the entire Spider-Verse film franchise out from under Miles Morales, so it feels only right that he should get his very own TV spin-off. Nicolas Cage returns to voice Ben Reilly, a version of Spider-Man hailing from a hard-boiled gumshoe version of 1930s New York, for a standalone adventure. Even better, the series will be available to watch in black and white (for the true purists) as well as \u2018True Hue\u2019, aka full colour. Also, apparently, cartoon as well as live action. How it will all hang together is anybody\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At long last, the miserable winter is over and spring is upon us. As the glorious sunshine returns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,6460,96,1636,392,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-519819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-netflix","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}